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TALMAGE. Ao Interesting Discourse on the Mer its f Awkward Usefalneii. it is high time that you lett-handed j Men are not safe from calumny j PAXCS OI STARVATION. mm who hire been trvin? for this i whi'.e thrv live, an-.!, worse than j .. The Good Results Wrougut Out by 'Lofi-Handfd" Hen Death in the .Snmtter-Time of Life. men who hare been trying for this 1 w: gift and that eloquence and the oth- j that, they are not safe ifter thev are er man's wealth should take your left hand out of your pocket. Who made all the-;? railroads? Wh et I up nil these cities? Who started all Brooklyn, X. V., March 20. Dr. Talmage preached this evening in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the sub ject "Awkward Usefulness." When iy elect! ic touch the titteen hundred toghtb of the tabernacle flash up, the auditorium affords a brilliant scene not to be. forgotten. The aisles and tie corridors and the entrances of the church are thronged. The open ing hymn at this evening's services was: My Bonl, be on thy guard; Ten thousand foes ariae: The hosts of sin are pressing bar J To draw thee from the ikies , The text was from Judges ni, 15. But when the rhildren of Israel cned unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gira, a Behjamite, a man left handed, and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon, the King of Moab." D-. Talmage said: Lhud was a ruler 111 Israel. He was Ielt-handed. and, what was pe culiar about the tribe of Benjamin. to which he belonged, there were in tt 7 If ft handed men, and yet so dexterous have they all become in th use of the lett hand that the Bibh says thev could sling atones at hair's breadth and not miss. Well, there wa- a King by th name ot Egdon, who was an op pressor ot Israel. lie imposed up n them a most outrageous tax a. ! T 1 T - iiiiuu, uic man 01 wnom 1 nrsi spoke, had a divine commission t- destroy that oppressor. He came pretending that he was going to pav the tax, and asked to see King Er Ion. lie was told he was in th summer-house, the place to which the King retired when it was too ho tu mi m tne paiace. 1 nis summer rsa-i.aia.-aai n 1 - .1 1 t 3 1 . uowers anu trees ana springing fountains and vrarbl ing birds. Ehud entered the summer-house, and sain to King Eglon that he had a secret errand with him. Immediately all the attendants were waved out of tin royal presence. King Eglon rises up to receive the messenger. Ehud, the left-handed man, puts kis lett tn.l I . . !. 1 1 1 . iianu iu 111a iiiji 6iur, puns out a J I 1 - - T7 I .t "krci nun uiiutis jgion inrouero until the halt went in after the blade. Eglon falls. Ehud comes forth to Wow a trumpet ot right amidst the mountains of Ephraim, and a great host is marshaled, and proud Moab submits to the conqueror, and Isra el is free. So, oh ! Lord, let all thv friends triumph ! I learn first from this subject the power of left-handed men. There are some men who by physical or ganization have as much strength in their lett hand as m their right hand, but there is something in the writing of this text which implies that Ehud had some defect in his right hand which compelled him to use the left Oh, the power of left-handed men! Genius js often self observant, care fal of itself, not given to much toil, burning incense to its own aTn- dizement ; while many a man with no natural endowments, actually de fective in physical and mental or ganization, has an earnestness for the rights of Datient industry, an all consuming persererance, which achieve marvels for the kingdom ot Christ. Though le tt handed as Ehud, ther can strike down a sin as great and imperial as Eglon. I have seen men ot wealth gathering aoout them all their treasures, snuff ing at the cause bt a world lying in wickedness, roughly ordering Laaa rus of their doorstep, sending their dogs, not to lick his sores, but to hound him off their premises ; catch ing all the pure rain of God's bless ing into the stagnant, ropy, irog-In-Habited pool of their own selfish ness right-handed men worse than useless while many a man w:th these churches and schools and asyl ums? Who has done the twz'jnn'z and running ami pul.inr Men ot no wonderful endowments, thous ands of them acknowledging them selves to be lefthar.ueu, and yet thev were ear:iet and vet they were de termined nrid yet they were triumph ant. But 1 do aot suppose that Ehud, the first tune he took a sling by his left hand, could throw a i stone a hair's breadth and not miss. I suppose it was practice that gave him the wonderful dexterity. Go to-th to your spheres of duty and be not discouraged if in your first at tempts you miss the mark. Ehud missed it. Take another stone, put it carefully into the sling, swing i: around your head, take better aim, and the next time you will strike the center. The first time a mason rings nis trowel upon the brick, he does not expect to put up a perfect wall. The first time a carpenter sends a plane over a board or drives a bit through a beam he does not expect to make perfect execu tion. The first time a boy attempts .1 rhyme he does not expect to chime i "Lalla Rookh" or a "Lady ot the Liike." Do not be surprised it m v our first efforts at doing good you ire not verv largely successtul. Un derstand that usefulness is an art, s science, a trade. There was an oe- u ist performing a very difficult op -.-ration on the human eye. A young doctor stood by and said: "How easily you do that; it don't seem to cause you any trouble at all." "Ah aii me oculist: "it is very easy now but I spoiled a hatful of eyee to learn thai." Be not surprised it it takes Mmc practice before we can help en to mora! eyesight and bring 1 hem to a vision of the cross. Left- ianded men, to the work ; take the ;ospel for a sling, and faith and re pentance for the smooth atone from he brook; take sure aim, God di rect the weapon and great Goliaths will tremble before you. When Garibaldi was going out to battle he told his troops what he wanted them to do, and after he had described what he wanted them to do they said: "Well. General, what ate you going to give us for all this Well," he replied, "1 don't know what else you will get, but you will get hunger and cold and wounds and , tontL IT . .1 1M , T uvaiii. huh UO you 11KC 11 Z ills . I I. r ' e 1-.., siuuu ucioie nun ior a nttw while in silence and then thev threw up their hand, and cried: "We are the men! We are the men!" The Lord Jesus Christ called you to his service. 1 do not promise you an easy time in the world. You may have persecutions and trials and mis representations ; but afterward there comes an eternal weight of glory, and you can bear the wounds and the bruises and the misrepresenta tions if you can hare the reward af terward. Have you not enough en thusiasm to cry out: "We are the men! We are the men !" I learn also from this subject the danger of worldly elevation. This Eglon was what the world called a great man. There were hundreds of people who would have consider ed it the greatest honor of their liter just to have him to speak to hem ; IlllZa. i 'i,li:;- a ! .l-..t. frir T r-ii-.-, ven iiviri mr.r ,,-. ! grave-yard. One d iv a r.ian goe up into publicity and the world does him honor and people climb up into fevcamore tit-es to watch him as he passes, and as he "e.-es alunj o-i the - -' shouldeis of the people there is t . - 1 waving o: n:.: ni a wiks To-:lloriOW the -a:ne 1:1 :t n is v between the jaw, of the pr press and mangled and hnsieed the very sa-ne person- who applaud ed him bcfoie crv :"Down with the traitor! Down with him!" Bel.sh-izzar sits at the teas', fne mightv men of Babylon sitting all around him. Wit sparkles like the j Horribl ufteririjTH Cusl by I act of luod dud Witr. wine and the wine like the w:t. Music runs up among the chande liers; the chandeliers Hash down on the decanters The breath of hang ing gardens floats iu on the night air ; the voice ot revelry floats out Amidst wreaths and tapestry anil tolded banners a finger writes. T1k march of a host is heard on the stan . Laughter catches in the throat. A thousand hearts stop beating. The blow is struck. The blood on t!u floor is richer lined than the wine on the table. The kingdom has depart ed. Belshazzar was no worse, pet haps, than hundreds of people in Babylon, but his position s.ew him. Oh, be content with j r-t such a position as God has pl.n ed you in. It may not be said of us, "He was a When I look, baek to rr.v own brief experience and think of the poor fel lows of the (irtvly expedition, and the long and weary month thev uTe-e in the Aretie n-"'i.::. I think, the mantle of charity and forgetful ue should be thrown over their aotion." -aid (ieor-e W. H'iwit, aa e-eoswa:n of th navy, who had !.-en attached t.. the ill-fated .schooner i a;.ai'--:.. I onu:u n-- saui: i was . ox-.na::i of one of boats ot the I aoai.:i when sht attached to the gulf ,;t:a,!ron. evening when returning fr in a, expedition we were caught a terrific squall and our i-oat was capsized near a small island. My ere v.- managed to reach tne shore. ; Bv the u of j Ho"tet,erStotn- ( ach Hitter trie hag;garJ appear ance 'it the coun tenance and m Icwne t ill v peptic arc -.ip- planieJ br a ealtfit.;! icn anj as t!:e food 'be ho.iT c- t:i ( i.e bo.il JfKt t;i:iifn;l"'..i ... (v Appc-ti'e is re- W.E. Walton k Cc. Harler, lo. aie A.-n to. i,c NEW HOME & DOMESTIC siiuist; MACHINES. s-.ired, anj the ihucus siem niuth needed sluM.Vr.iluouih the use ot '.his medicine, which is aKo'bettet'icij! to persons ot a rheumatic tendencv. and an eer and ai;ii itnah'.e preventive o! be rescued, i ' nee, and ! ov.r !.u:lt drifted away in the darkm --s. V- l.i down in the bushes and l,-pt that night, an-1 when morning broke v.- realized' that we were on a desolate i-i .ml. W'o ex plored the island and found ..n it only underbrush and trees, nothing in the frhape of food or water. WeT-.ad oniv to hope that we would sum The gale continued with i we p-nt another mght m t-d bushes. On the following morning we Wean to feel the pangs of hunger a;;d thirst, and finding an old barrel ,1 the K-ach we broke it up and u.-edtlie -taves to dig for w ater. w hich we I s brack ish that we could not o- k it. Then we set up a pole on a eh v :h a shirt of one of the men faste; to it a.s a signal of distress. Our .-uih rings from thirst were indescribable. We passed the third night and day on the island without any change, except in one inci dent. With a companion' I started on a tour around the iiand, it beh.g our alebv erally. !1 druggists and de.i'trs j;cn- praetiee to take turns to search for a he was an hoi great genera;, or oieu cmeitam, or "tie was might in worldly attainments:" but this thing may be aid of you and of me: "He was a good citizen, a faithful Christian, a friend of Tesus;" and that, in the last day. will be the high est of all eulogiums I learn turther from this subject that death comes to the summer house. Eglon did not expect to die in that fine place. Amidst all the flower leaves that drifted like sum mcr snow into the wind w ; m tie tinkle and dash of the fountains ; in th- sound ot a thousand leaves flut- iciing on one tree-branch; in the cool breeze that came up to shaki; feverish trouble out of the kind's locks there was nothing that spoke of death, but there he died ! In the winter, when the snow is a shroud and when the wind is a dirge, it is easy to think of our mortality; but when the weather is pleasant and all our surroundings are agreeable, how difficult it is for us to appreciate the truth that we are mortal ' And yet mv text teaches that death does sometimes tome to the utnmer- krv..o II. : I.I- 1.1 1 """" nt- is muni ano cannot see the leaves. He- js dedtl and can not hear the fountains. Ok, it death would ask us for victims, vre could point him to hundreds ot people who would refoice to have him come, i'ush back the door of the hovel. Look at the little child cold and ick and hungry It has never heard the name of God but in blasohemy. Parents intoxicated, staggering around its straw bed. O Death. there is a mark for thee! Up with it into the light! Before those little ,w uiwugii uc is so ruga up m i feet stumble on life's pathway, give- them rest. tlere is an ago! man. lie done his work. II.- ha done it gloriouslv. The con, p inions of hi youth all gone, h;s children .lead, he longs to he at rest, and weaniv the ts.S. Hv 1 me parsing vessel that we m ght signal, and going through a clump of woods saw a cormorant, a bird ot . arrion con sidered unlit to eat. 1 k lie.j it uith a club and we ravenod-ly t : .- it in pieces and sucked its biood. v i.-.-.-i. in our condition, was refreshing. ii.it we did not mention the fact to -ur comrade upon our return to camp. The morn ing of the fourth day broke with exces sive hea , and one iI our vi tv was so delirious that it required two "of in in subdue him. Our tongues h id o swol len fllQt U-il n.Mil.l t...,. 1. .. . t 1 I ........ .viuu flnrn -.e.'.K anove a whisper. Our lips w eni- .o cracked and split with the i tense 1 -..t. 'Tn the afternoon om- 02 the men who had been on his tour was observed running toward the camp, and we could just distinguish a- he 'came near er that he was crviiiir 'a. bo:d .' Th, who were able started toward the end or the island, where our distress signal was flying, and we distinguished a boat approaching us from the' ,ii -dunce. As 11 approached the shore we recornizri 11 aa tne launch of the Tallapoosa. As the officer came on shore we begged " -v ier. ii t.-iv us- a. couple of swallows each, w hich made us crave lor more, but it was denied to us. men a nre was mad. m ti beach, and in a few moments a pot of uul eouee was n-ailv. tf thu w rA. ceived only a few swallows each, and men we were snven a lew- nie.-.w ,f id iot bread soaked iu the c.tie.-. Then we were assisted into the hebt and ta- Ken to the ship, which we reuehed lt at night. A few davs of cnreful f....f. ing and tender nursing rfston-d lis tl our former strength. I have often thought how thankful I was to (Jod for mat rescue, i V-rsons w!ic h?iv nwr naa HKe experience can form no ;h.o 01 tne terrible sufferings? 0f men in that condition; and those . 1 1.1.. -. . .. ' "Jirsuiv criticise me survivors nf t ha vjueerv expedition, ll placed mr.rr similar surroundings, would no doubt aoopt, the same course." AVw York 1 rtuune. of iGZjr sC I lsS y 3iThe Largest V vil Merchant Tailoring T7 and Clothing House AJ in America. Qr A full line of card cample cf ' i M V, the great piece Bocd nock 1 WANAMAKER & BROWN, OAK HALL, Philadelphia. a run line of card aamptea cf piece gocaa Hoc will be found wi-.ii J. -m .Mhbl-X, rnmm v. It. il H i.. utler. Ma FABMSAMILLS i 1 . t..it;iiJ, Vaw TEX MOST Penetrating Liniment IK THK WOaLD. A powerful prensrstlon an eoopoutrautd tnatafew drop applied W the ar I will penetrate to tha Verjr bonc.r.rid tlmoillv. Rheumatism If nra!elav, Spralzzs, litis Jolntm. aatnaBMk, Tooth-Ache, Ber Throat, Pavina la Lilmbc, 8 torn. vch or Bowels, r in aoy part or Brat era. Will Not liilLtLVTamii nor diM-olor Uie akin. It lima Tttt-n In roaatant oaa I y Fliyslelana and otbrra or ju yrm. erlraatm. JACOB S. MKRRCLL, St. Louis, Mo. rcra balk bt axl. pruooibtb ajth xaxxs8 uf acxsicurza. s, iriu v lEWfjlOME nUC.l'i kXT la ' .1111 & NO EQL r . .- 30 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK mi:: rCR SALE BY Carioitie of "Good Tliues." days go and the nights savs: --Coou, Lord 1 sus. worldly position, he is not bevond the reach of Ehud's dagger. I see a great many people trying to climb up lr. social position, having an idra that there is a safe place soinewh-re far abore. not knowing that tK mountain of fame has a top like Mount Blanc, covered with perpetu al snow. We laugh at the children of Shmar for trying to build a towei that could reach to the heavens : but I think if our eyesight were only good enough we could see a Babel ia many a door yard. Oh the strug gle is fierce. It is store against ! q'sklv. O. death, there is a mark for thee! take tm-n hi 01 the staff and 5,K "'Hi tne scepter ; up with m-n into the light where eyes never grow j dim and the hair whitens not through. the long year of eternity-. Ah. de::th J wii: not do that! Death turns iMck j from the straw hil mis, I tr. I aged man ready for the skies. ;,nd comes to the summer-house. What doest thou here, thou bonv, ghastly monster, amidst this waving gras and under this sunlight sitr;iS.r mrougft. the tree branches? Chii hcn ! arc at play i eople do some very funny thino wnen tney are drunk. The other night I met a noted citizen, wealthy and dig nified, coming out of a saloon with a nam-oone, picked pretty clean, which he was gnawing at with drunken con tentment. Jle had removed it from it place alter it had gone through a hard day on the free-lunch counter. A few evenings ago 1 saw a voung gentleman on Kearney street with his necktie up behind his ear, a champagne cork, at- i:ienei oy a sinns: to his collar-stud uungnng graceiuuy over his shirt-front, eating with great earnestness corn from its native eob. When it was al,' PlCKetl n h imtoi ut ,r ulil. 1. : . 1 . ' - v " iroi .s 10 has 1 nis eyes, murmunnz in a low. pathetic tone: "The last corn's gone," and oropped it reluctantly into the. gutter. Damon and Pythias came back to us in the two topers goin? home in the mid dle of the night- One of them elloped oyer a low bank and Hank in mud up tc his knees. The other tried to pull him vnt. niiuuui avail. nnaiiy Doth u up. and i'ythiaa said: I ., 1 awt i r na' lr-- ' lau. H0!i t mm Hurrewa from a jr .Wrroaa. lieavle. or I hniiLi Olearsted (Verki, r'BkK. llwjr aencrUM nvrrr irmpaca In your cam. EapertiU Miottua rlrea to caaaa of Nerroaa Itto blllly la every eta-. tW It maces no unrerice at baa 70a have taken. r v ho baa failed to cure you.Attend at one to thla, for ttaapa IJfe'a laer and Umnm to a yVrcek t - W till tbera la Life, there ia Mone. Writ, tt icarroniy of mn yigaav av wry com ntuisTtnkf. ConTOlttheOU Doctor. Otbrm mm Parion PriTaio. A rrteodlr rrnniraaur- Booka, Ac, aent errwber hajaa a-BB-aa, ferine and sham. Medicine, aBBD. Dt. -. Mil --: J WMVI V WHT rore front Ex p-twore. lloara.tto ; fcuoday, toli Addroaa leavers P. It. LARKB. M. O.. OH Lott bt. Loml. Ut UcxiTaHed In Appearanoa. TTnparaUelod in Eiaplidtj. XTsprocodsated in Dcrahillt7. TfaexscUfld in Scoacmy cf rnd. Bndkputei b BROAD CLAIM., .tt ft! VERT BEST 0PER1TIKG, yuiLRtbT St Lull G. HAIDSOIEST W Ever offerod to th Pnbllo. XASl ohlt bttsx EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO Hot. 612, 621, 616 A6M1T. Jtila St. 8T. LOUI8, KIOa A L. McUhwk & Co FOR FERRY'S 1HSS I AlXAIitE TO At.I.1 ' ill te Eeiled 17 lo lit l atvpliccr.u Y mzul to ciinoraern of lor.ll appliccr.u f Vi C.C."a fc v a a vva. ia n c m gave cvuer-.r-.tt it I; cer l'.:s ifluvtratioc. price j, (.etcrij.'.Mct at.tj li.-ertior for rii'ii'irs- ff.r,i;..- nr. A lfr:EE-Ti. iff f.Wi . 'I will not leave vou here a! alone. He got in beside him and thev waited for daylight and a Good Sama'ritan. Nm t'raruiseo Chronicle. A IV-lfne Fly-Catcher. A man who lives not a hundred milts from this city has a cat that catcher flies for a living, or lives to eaten Kies. it is a tiger-colored kitten aoout three months old. when in porter saw the animal bounding about tne room, he aked what it was snout. 'He's catching tlie," explained his owner. That' what he doe the whole dav. He h-i eaten nothir.- ! TO HATE Hf-tTH TNI UVtl MOST U KrTII MWI. l . o -r-. .M4i7t. to i..-io. nmiL, taxi la. - Or.G.W.FITZPATfllCi:, 1 itfl. Ka 12. Uu.ll-.v,t I a. 1 ... f xlow quickiv thtir tect ; how he came bv th- habit. UV h-.ve store, house against house, street Urge heart and little pulse has out of S d3,nst strt, nation against nation. ras limited means made poverty leao wnicn men aic runnm for joy and started on influence that 'S cn3!rs na chandeliers and mirrors j t,oujj t-l tne:r j.,vs in the wio.l Father and mother stand at the sKh ot tne room enjoving rhcir glee. i does not seem possible that the w "Scred Lias milk. rn. I iH.nl, tiut R" Will :i;t toe-i; jr.. catches and eat a- man aci other ! He it : some davs. ihe cat becomes vit h i-vversnjns rK ., 1 ...:? ( and hmiiKc 1 1 1 1. 1 i :.j .,v i.it nm swing ; niius tivi i icsiOvii ; carry oil a ia ib rand and rounJ the lhron of God, j tial equipments. If they get what 1 archer stanN I wuu wunout ena ; amen. Ah. me, they aut.cipate, hat have they got. ; ever break nto that told olf ! 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